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GCN - States with legalized marijuana industries need technology to track plants from seed to sale and from doctors to patients. Tech companies are answering the call in creative ways -- adapting much of the technology from industries…

Above The Law - In December of last year, Nebraska and Oklahoma (the “NO States”) filed suit against Colorado in the United States Supreme Court, seeking to invalidate Colorado’s recreational cannabis laws. Last week…

KSN.com - TOPEKA, Kansas – The House has given first-round approval to a measure that would decrease penalties for marijuana possession, allow the limited use of medical marijuana and study the use of industrial hemp.
The Ho…

The Press Herald - But Maine hospitals say they face federal penalties if they allow patients, including children, to use nonsmokable forms of medical marijuana prescribed by their doctors.
AUGUSTA — Samantha Brown doesn&rsq…

CBS News - WICHITA, Kansas -- A medical marijuana advocate has lost custody of her 11-year-old son at least temporarily and could face possible charges following comments the boy made during a drug education program at school.
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5News - Six Colorado county sheriffs are suing their governor over the state’s recreational marijuana law, and law enforcement officials from Kansas and Nebraska are also fighting the legislation.
Colorado’s recreation…

International Business Times - The greedy pigs may have stolen their eggs, but it appears the Angry Birds have seized some grass. A Canadian boy discovered a bag of marijuana hidden inside an Angry Birds Telepods game he bought this we…

KansasCity.com - TOPEKA – Penalties for marijuana possession could be softened in Kansas as legislators seek to lower prison populations and reduce costs.
State officials testified Wednesday in favor of a bill that would drop…

Kansas.com - Voters will decide April 7 whether to lessen the penalty for first-time possession of marijuana in Wichita.
The Wichita City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to put the measure on the ballot after backers presented a petition…

Kansas.com - TOPEKA, KAN. — Parents of chronically ill children gave emotional testimony Wednesday at a hearing on allowing medical marijuana in Kansas, telling state senators that the drug could help their kids.
The Kan…

CBS Sacramento - SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) – A Northern California tribe has signed up to be the first tribe in the state to launch a large marijuana-growing operation.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that the Pinolevill…

The Gazette - DENVER — Colorado's top law enforcement official promises to vigorously defend the state's historic law legalizing marijuana after Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitu…

USA Today - DENVER — Colorado is launching a major campaign to educate residents and tourists alike on how to responsibly use marijuana.
The $5.7 million "Good to Know" campaign begins hitting airwaves, newspapers a…

Yahoo News - SEATTLE (Reuters) - The number of children treated annually for accidental pot consumption in Colorado has reached double-digits and a drug treatment chain has seen a surge of teens treated for cannabis abuse, a leading U…

Billings Gazette - CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An increasing number of visitors to Yellowstone National Park are being prosecuted for possessing small amounts of medical and recreational pot, which remains illegal on federal land.
Park…

New York Times - SEATTLE — A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference many feared, but with competition from medi…

Kansas.com - Backers of a Wichita petition drive to reduce the penalty for marijuana possession say they now have more than enough signatures to put an initiative on the April 7 city election ballot – and they’ll be turnin…

KMBC.com - Border states want to punish Colorado for legalizing pot
TOPEKA, Kan. —Kansas hasn't decided whether to join a lawsuit filed by other states against Colorado over its legalization of marijuana even though the two sta…

CBS News - That whiff of pot that drifts your way at a rock concert or outdoor event could damage your heart and blood vessels as much as secondhand cigarette smoke does, preliminary research suggests.
Blood vessel function in labo…

Forbes - At a press conference yesterday, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s congressional delegate, urged her colleagues to respect the will of the voters who overwhelmingly approved marijuana legalization in the …

The Atlantic - A conversation with middle-aged moms, homeless men, and college kids about post-prohibition in Boulder, Colorado
The most eclectic gathering spot in Boulder, Colorado, is the Pearl Street Mall, a pedestrian thor…

Hawaii News Now - JOHNSON COUNTY, KS (KCTV) - A new drug is emerging in the metro and causing serious concern.
The drug goes by the names wax, butter and honeycomb because its waxy texture makes it look like lip balm. While many ad…

by Matt Kreamer
Top Shelf Cannabis in Bellingham opened its doors at 8 a.m. today, kicking off the first legal marijuana sales in Washington.
Cole Holdsworth and Sarah Gorton of Kansas, who arrived about 4 a.m., we…

They haven’t run out of all supply yet but the manager of a cannabis store in Bellingham says it has been a hectic first day of sales.
She says one strain of the drug is completely gone but Top Shelf Cannabis did anticip…